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1 Sarah Bilston Office Tel: ; Education Somerville College, University of Oxford, England ( ). D.Phil. in English Literature (2000). M.St. (Master of Studies) in Research Methods in English (1996). University College, University of London, England (1991-5). M.A. in Anglo-American Literary Relations, with distinction (1995). B.A. in English Literature, with first class honors (1994). Honors and Appointments Thomas Church Brownell Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Trinity College (2017). Honorary Fellow, Davenport College, Yale University (2017-present). Associate Professor of English Literature (with tenure), Trinity College (July 2011-present). Assistant Professor of English Literature, Trinity College (2005-June 2011). Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer, Women s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University ( ). Lecturer, English Department, Yale University (2001-3). Life Member, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge (2001-present). Junior Research Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, England ( ). Lecturer, Yale English Department (Fall 99), Morse & Pierson Colleges (Spring 2000). Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature, Somerville College, Oxford (Spring 1999). British Academy Student Postgraduate Research Award (1996-9). Clothworkers Foundation Postgraduate Research Award (1995-6). Scholarship Academic Books The Promise of the Suburbs: A Victorian History in Literature and Culture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019 (forthcoming). The Awkward Age in Women s Popular Fiction, : Girls and the Transition to Womanhood. Oxford: Clarendon Press [O.U.P.], 2004.

2 Academic Articles Your Vile Suburbs Can Offer Nothing But The Deadness Of The Grave : The Stereotyping of Early Victorian Suburbia. Victorian Literature and Culture 41 (2013): They Congregate in Towns and Suburbs : The Shape of Middle-Class Life in John Claudius Loudon s The Suburban Gardener. Victorian Review 37 (2011): Queens of the Garden: Victorian Women Gardeners and the Rise of the Gardening Advice Text. Victorian Literature and Culture 36 (2008): It is Not What We Read, But How We Read : Maternal Counsel on Girls Reading Practices in Mid-Victorian Literature. Nineteenth-Century Contexts 30 (2008): Conflict and Ambiguity in Victorian Women s Writing: Eliza Lynn Linton and the Possibilities of Agnosticism. Tulsa Studies in Women s Writing 23 (2004): Republished in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism: Criticism of Novelists, Philsophers, and Other Creative Writers Who Died between 1800 and 1899, From the First Published Critical Appraisals to Current Evaluations. Vol Ed. Catherine C. DiMercurio. New York: Gale Cengage/Layman Poupard, Authentic Performance in Theatrical Women s Fictions of the 1870s. Women s Writing 11 (2004): A New Reading of the Anglo-Indian Women s Novel ( ): Passages to India, Passages to Womanhood. English Literature in Transition 44 (2001): Academic Reference Women s Suburban Fiction [2000 word entry; invited submission]. Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women s Writing. Palgrave/Springer Nature: 2019 (forthcoming). Eliza Lynn Linton. Invited volume advisor. Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism: Criticism of Novelists, Philsophers, and Other Creative Writers Who Died between 1800 and 1899, From the First Published Critical Appraisals to Current Evaluations. Vol Ed. Catherine C. DiMercurio. New York: Gale Cengage/Layman Poupard, Fiction Sleepless Nights. A Novel. HarperCollins Spring (2009) and Sphere [Little, Brown, UK], December (2008). Published also in Italy, Netherlands, Japan. Bed Rest: A Novel. HarperCollins (2006). Published in 9 languages and 2 audiobooks. [Washington Post Spring Pick 2006] Batter My Heart. A Novel. Completed manuscript of a literary mystery; preparing for submission. 2

3 Work in Progress Victorian Backlash: Social Conservatism After the Wilde Trials [new book-length research project]. Selected Reviews Rev. of Laura Baker Whelan, Class, Culture and Suburban Anxieties in the Victorian Era. nbol- 19.org, Rev. of Christa Zorn, Vernon Lee: Aesthetics, History, and the Victorian Female Intellectual ELT 48 (2005): Rev. of Dominic Hibberd, Harold Monro: Poetry of the New Age ELT 46 (2003): Rev. of Nicola Diane Thompson ed., Victorian Women Writers and the Woman Question Notes & Queries 47 (2000): Selected Journalism Breaking up Families? America Looks Like a Dickens Novel. TheConversation.com, 20 June, Republished by numerous outlets, including: Chicago Tribune, Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, International Business Times, Alternet.com and Salon.com. The Death of Chick-Lit, Slate/Double X (11 August 2009). Featured article on Bed Rest, Eve Magazine UK (May 2007); featured article on Bed Rest, You Magazine UK (July 2007). Don t Take This Lying Down, New York Times (24 March, 2006). Op-eds in Hartford Courant and Tallahassee Democrat on motherhood (June 25 & 26 06). Selected Professional Work Manuscript reviewer for Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Victorian Review, Women s Writing, Yale University Press. Board Member, American Short Fiction. Memberships in Academic Organizations NEVSA (North East Victorian Studies Association). NAVSA (North American Victorian Studies Association). INCS (Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association). BWWA (British Women Writers Association). 3

4 Selected Conference Papers and Presentations Dickens and the Poor Laws. Invited Speaker: Friends of Dickens NYC. November, Looking Out Across a New Landscape: Suburban Problems and Women s Design Solutions. NAVSA, St. Petersburg, Florida. October New Directions: Women and the Suburban Margins. British Women Writers Association Conference, Austin, TX. April Understanding Queen Victoria. Invited talks. Wallingford Historic Preservation Trust, C.T. March 2018; St. Mary s Women s Guild, Farmington C.T. April 2017; Simsbury Historical Society, C.T. January Reading Harry Potter. English Department Tea, Trinity College, October, Art at Home: Women's Literature and Suburban Interior Decoration, 1870s-90s. Salon, English Department, Trinity College, Spring Gertrude Jekyll and The Idea of the Garden. Trinity Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, Trinity College, Spring Desperate Housewives? Victorian Women and the Literature of Suburbia. Salon, English Department, Trinity College, Spring Panel Chair, Anthology Reading Audiences. Anthologies Conference, Trinity College, March Domesticity and Community in Victorian Suburbia. NEMLA, Boston, March Writing and Publishing Mommy Lit : One Author s Perspective. NEMLA, Buffalo, April Queens of the Garden: Victorian Women Gardeners and the Rise of the Gardening Advice Text/The Literature of the Victorian Villa. Salon, English Department, Trinity College, September Radio Interviews, UK and USA, on Bed Rest, ; featured appearance on local NBC TV channel, June ; featured appearance on Marketplace, NPR, October

5 Courses Taught at Trinity College First-Year Seminars, Queen Victoria s England, Harry Potter s Literary Past. English 220, Crime and Passion: Studies in Victorian Literature. English 222, Victorian Short Fiction. English 259, Victorian London: Literature of a Changing City. English 260, Introduction to Literary Studies. English 264, Victorian London: Center and Suburbs. English 327, Reading and Writing Women s Fiction. WMGS/English 343, Women and Empire. English 315, Girls Growing Up in Victorian Literature. English 421/821, British Literature of the 1890s. English 424/824, Studies in Victorian Narrative. English 464/863, Feminist Approaches to Literature. English 498, Senior Thesis Colloquium. Service at Trinity College Brownell/Hughes Prizes, Decision Committee Member, Vice-Chair, Jury Panel, Jury Panel Member, Faculty Research Committee Member, Graduate Studies Committee Member, English Department Co-ordinator, AK Smith Visiting Scholar Series, ; 2014-present. Search Committee Member, History Department, Chair, Senior Thesis Committee, English Department, Search Committee Member, Athletics [Men s Lacrosse Coach], Faculty Liaison, Men s Lacrosse Team, Advisor, Office of Study Abroad, 2010-present. Financial Affairs Committee Member,